Rosies of the North (1999)
46m
Running Time
November 10, 1999Release Date
Rosies of the North (1999)
46m
Running Time
November 10, 1999Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Victor Cowie
Comic Strip
Nancy Drake
Comic Strip
Martine Friesen
Narrator
Brian Richardson
Comic Strip
Jan Skene
Comic Strip
Robert Lower
Writer
Robert Lower
Writer
Joe MacDonald
Producer
Greg Lowe
Composer
Ian Elkin
Cinematographer
Kathy Driscoll-Mohler
CastingDirector
Kelly Saxberg
Director / Editor
Graydon McCrea
Executive Producer
Dino Schiavone
Sound
Saul Henteleff
Sound Editor
Robert Lower
Writer / Script
Ian Elkin
Cinematography
Randy Wilson
Corinne Little
Jadwiga Kondakow
Nina Godecki
Mary Riddoch
Jim Carmichael
Irene Fedell
Don Gandier
Margaret Gandier
Jack Little
Marilyn Bellin
Tracey Busniak
Kaylee Busniak
Ann Soulsby
George Bicknell
Lauretta Breckon Jones
Helen Gural
Alan Norton
Alice Taylor
Muriel Bailey
Gordon Burkowski
Elizabeth Schneewind
Lorna Marsden
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 10, 1999
StatusReleased
Running Time46m
Filming LocationsOntario, Canada
Genres
Wiki.
Rosies of the North (French-language title: Riveuses du nord) is a 46-minute Canadian documentary film made in 1999 by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and directed by Kelly Saxberg. The film recounts the story of the women at the Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario, who built fighter and bomber aircraft needed for the war effort in the Second World War. It also is the story of female engineer Elsie MacGill, who became known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes". The title of the film is an allusion to the wartime iconic image of Rosie the Riveter.